Azealia Banks doubled down on anti-Muslim remarks, telling critics “I don’t make music for Muslims honey” amid rising boycott calls.

Azealia Banks discovered herself on the heart of one other explosive controversy this week after responding to boycott calls with defiant anti-Muslim statements which have intensified public outrage.

The “212” rapper escalated tensions when a former fan launched the #BoycottAzealiaBanks marketing campaign, urging listeners to take away her hits “212” and “Liquorice” from playlists following her current Islamophobic posts on X.

The remark got here after the fan account @azealia_tiktok posted a photograph of the rapper marked with a prohibited emoji, calling for DJs and music lovers to delete her tracks.

According to Banks, the marketing campaign is nothing however a pretend smear marketing campaign designed by “gay muslims” to wreck her status.

“The muslims have obviously paid for some massive internet clap back campaign of bots and gay muslim third worlders to mask themselves in Stan Twitter and make insufferably cliche retorts to any notice of muslim mediocrity….They are really bad at this pop culture thing and that weakness should be exploited. All of this is engineered,” Azealia Banks mentioned.

The controversy stems from a collection of posts the place Azealia Banks claimed she “hates Muslims” and made extra inflammatory statements linking her critics to world tragedies.

Earlier this yr, she declared herself a Zionist and rejected calls to help Palestinians through the ongoing Middle East battle. These positions culminated in her October 9 efficiency at Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua amphitheater, the place she appeared draped in an Israeli flag regardless of widespread business boycotts of Israel.

The Tel Aviv live performance marked a dramatic reversal from Banks’ 2018 stance, when she vowed by no means to return to Israel after describing what she known as a racist expertise. Her resolution to carry out there drew criticism from activists and followers who considered the present as an endorsement of Israeli navy actions.

Azealia Banks’ remarks have drawn widespread condemnation from followers and social media customers who labeled the feedback hateful and harmful.

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